I don't like art that has no visual focus - sure, there's some skill that actually goes into it, it's actually a bit hard to toss paint on a canvas in an appealing way.
But just because its' a painting of something doesn't mean it's 'art' to me, either.
I remember going to the National Museum of American Art in DC years ago (when I was a kid) and going "wtf?) at Campbell soup-cans on the wall :shrug:
But, at the same time, there have been a few pieces of abstract art that I've seen that are interesting - the colors are pretty or put together in an image-like manor even though it wasn't a painting of something in particular.
Oddly - these that appealed to me were all done on 11x14 sheets by students at a mentally disabled school - but they were fascinating.
One was an oil with star-like color smears (dark colors: red, blue, purple) and then that was painted over with black and white - almost like starry night with a demented touch.
Of course, now that I'm thinking about it, abstract art just isn't 'paint on canvas' - it's also found in stain glass, on pottery, and jewelry.
In these other areas - I really like some ideas I've seen because the medium it's presented on gives it a feel or a style on it's own - stain glass uses light. Pottery uses the shape of the items itself and jewelry is more appealing to me if it doesn't have a pattern or picture to it.
This is a beautiful one one by Brian Giberson
It looks like it's suppose to be something, but it's not - it could be a cityscape, a bridge, a shipwreck under water . . . there's no "it is ___ and only ___ "
Here's another:
So I guess, if it's certain colors and just visual enough, I'll like it.